for the newer folks to BOINC and seti@home, The admins have made a point to tell people that there will be times where seti@home has no work. They have always said to have a backup project or 2 to fall back on when work is scarce.

"One man's fan noise is another's 'sleep machine'". :)

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I've been running an ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP/2DI/768MD5 for 3 months solid 24/7.
My RAC has been around 14k to 15300 . . . until today I was using Lunatics .37...
I just loaded up .38 & I'm interested to see how it works out.

This is on my "HTPC/TV" PC, so it does double duty recording my TV shows and crunching BOINC/Seti.
I don't bother to over-clock but this card already runs at 700MHz/1400MHz.

I keep seeing a Sparkle Refurbished for $100 that looks tempting... I've generally had good luck with refurbs . . . Pre-disastered . . . at least you get some sort of warranty...

Another thing I've been thinking about is one those GTX 465s . . . but that's another story.

Why a 465? They only have 18 more cores, run way hotter, and aren't as overclockable.

While we are talking about GTX460's can someone solve my confusion please:

I've just had a look at the various offerings around I see there are several different specs for this card. My brain can cope with the various clock speed offerings (in crude terms faster clock = faster processing), and memory size (again the more the better). But my brain sort of splutters when I see two different core counts - 288 and 336 - surely there is only one core count for the '460? Or am I missing something?, or is this a red herring, and the lower count isn't actually a "proper" '460?

There seems to be a GTX 460 SE with 6 Streaming Multiprocessors instead of 7 - that would account for the missing 48 cores.